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  1. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  2. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  3. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  4. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  5. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  6. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  7. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  8. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  9. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  10. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  11. Sometimes it is hard to not believe in conspiracy theories, if only because there are so many conspiracies. But they aren't secret, we just ignore them, to our peril.
    #PublicSchools #Vouchers #RichPeopleDestroyingSociety

    dianeravitch.net/2026/07/27/th

  12. Sometimes it is hard to not believe in conspiracy theories, if only because there are so many conspiracies. But they aren't secret, we just ignore them, to our peril.
    #PublicSchools #Vouchers #RichPeopleDestroyingSociety

    dianeravitch.net/2026/07/27/th

  13. Sometimes it is hard to not believe in conspiracy theories, if only because there are so many conspiracies. But they aren't secret, we just ignore them, to our peril.
    #PublicSchools #Vouchers #RichPeopleDestroyingSociety

    dianeravitch.net/2026/07/27/th

  14. Sometimes it is hard to not believe in conspiracy theories, if only because there are so many conspiracies. But they aren't secret, we just ignore them, to our peril.
    #PublicSchools #Vouchers #RichPeopleDestroyingSociety

    dianeravitch.net/2026/07/27/th

  15. Sometimes it is hard to not believe in conspiracy theories, if only because there are so many conspiracies. But they aren't secret, we just ignore them, to our peril.
    #PublicSchools #Vouchers #RichPeopleDestroyingSociety

    dianeravitch.net/2026/07/27/th

  16. Previously: A civil rights complaint filed last week alleges years of bullying and racially-motivated attacks on two BIPOC students, by teachers, city officials and classmates. From Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee. texasobserver.org/bonham-isd-r

    #politics #education #racism #Bonham #Texas #CivilRights #HumanRights #children #disability #schools #PublicSchools #USpol #news

  17. Previously: A civil rights complaint filed last week alleges years of bullying and racially-motivated attacks on two BIPOC students, by teachers, city officials and classmates. From Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee. texasobserver.org/bonham-isd-r

    #politics #education #racism #Bonham #Texas #CivilRights #HumanRights #children #disability #schools #PublicSchools #USpol #news

  18. Previously: A civil rights complaint filed last week alleges years of bullying and racially-motivated attacks on two BIPOC students, by teachers, city officials and classmates. From Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee. texasobserver.org/bonham-isd-r

    #politics #education #racism #Bonham #Texas #CivilRights #HumanRights #children #disability #schools #PublicSchools #USpol #news

  19. Previously: A civil rights complaint filed last week alleges years of bullying and racially-motivated attacks on two BIPOC students, by teachers, city officials and classmates. From Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee. texasobserver.org/bonham-isd-r

    #politics #education #racism #Bonham #Texas #CivilRights #HumanRights #children #disability #schools #PublicSchools #USpol #news

  20. Previously: A civil rights complaint filed last week alleges years of bullying and racially-motivated attacks on two BIPOC students, by teachers, city officials and classmates. From Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee. texasobserver.org/bonham-isd-r

    #politics #education #racism #Bonham #Texas #CivilRights #HumanRights #children #disability #schools #PublicSchools #USpol #news